The topic of school discipline, school safety and the so-called school to prison pipeline continues...
Baca to Be Interviewed by FBI for Role in Hiding Federal Informant & More
According to a new LA Times story, Sheriff Lee Baca “played a significant role” in the...
LASD “COPS HIT Team” Opens Fire…CA Activist Gets Son Back After 3-Strikes Reform…..The Teen Court Option
A SHOOTING IN LANCASTER Angel Mendez, 30, and Jennifer Garcia, 27, were assuredly not model...
Texas AB—a New Look at White Supremacist Prison Gangs….SD’s Deadly Jails, Part 2…& More
NPR LOOKS AT THE AB AND OTHER PRISON GANGS Prison gangs—in particular white prison...
The War on Cops—that Isn’t….Rethinking Anti-Bulling Policies…Reporters & their Sources…..”Teacher Jail” Proposal Win’s Support
A WAR ON COPS? When police officers are murdered, in addition to the unbearable hole it leaves in...
Late in Posting Today. Check Back Soon
Still slowed by an unscheduled hard drive crash. Posting a little later today. Check back
Straight Talk About Sex Offenders & Their Ankle Monitors…Are the LAPD’s Internal Investigations Good Enough?….& the Death of a City Hall Homeboy
WHAT TO DO ABOUT SEX OFFENDERS WHO SNIP THEIR ANKLE MONITORS? ROB GREENE AT THE LA TIMES STARTS A...
2012 Was a Good Year for Exonerations…..D.C. Kids Use Cameras to Protest More School Cops… More Sloppy Realignment Reporting
Light posting today. Working on a number of interesting thing for next week and the following...
Interview With LASD’s New Top Jailer…..a Profile of Former Gangster….New Probation Report Describes “Alarming” Misconduct…. Petersilia Speaks on Realignment
PATT MORRISON TALKS TO THE LASD’S NEW JAILER-IN-CHIEF The LA Times Patt Morrison did an...
Realignment Battles…..and LA’s Jail Dogs
ASSEMBLY DEMS REJECT FIRST ROUNDS OF ATTEMPTED REALIGNMENT ROLL-BACKS After decades of general...
LASD Lieutenant Sues Department Commander for Sexual Harassment & More
Angela Walton, a lieutenant who is quite literally a poster girl for the Los Angeles...
LASD to Appeal $1.1 Million Judgement ….and other stories
THE LASD WILL APPEAL RECENT HIGH $$ JUDGEMENT IN CASE OF DEPUTY SHOOTING OF PALMDALE TEENAGER WITH...
$1.1 Million Judgement for LASD Shooting With or Without “Malice”……People are Dying Like Crazy in SD Jails….and The Power of Justice Ruth
JURY AWARDS $1.1 MILLION TO PALMDALE TEENAGER SHOT BY LASD DEPUTY WHILE ON BIKE WITH TOY GUN This...
LASD Gets $$….Allegations Ongoing for Pasadena PD Officers…Supremes Hear DOMA…
SUPES VOTE TO GIVE SHERIFF ASKED FOR $22 MILLION FOR PATROLS At Tuesday’s LA County Board of...
Rules for Engagement: The Collateral Damage of School Discipline…and What to Do About It
THE SECRET TO FIXING SCHOOL DISCIPLINE PROBLEMS: CHANGE THE ADULTS Journalist Jane Stevens has a...
Prop 8 Arguments: Is Gay Marriage Younger than Cell Phones? What About the Children? Should Post-Menopausal Women Be Allowed to Marry….and Other Pressing Questions (Plus a New Big LAPD Settlement)
PROP 8 CHALLENGER ATTORNEYS DAVID BOIES AND TED OLSON AFTER TUESDAY’S HEARING It is still...
Is the Right to Counsel Becoming a Myth? ….R.I.P. Anthony Lewis….Prepping for the Supremes & Prop 8, et al
IS OUR RIGHT TO COMPETENT LEGAL COUNSEL IF WE NEED IT A MYTH? Every week I get a couple of calls...
Paul Tanaka’s Exit: the Sequel….and Possible Plans for 2014
The LA Times’ Robert Faturechi and Jack Leonard report that Undersheriff Paul Tanaka did not...